Excellent excellent show!
Boys rocked it out!
Nice mixed setlist of new rockin' tunes, staples & hidden gems. Great to hear Titanic and Daredevil again.
The sound was frickin' amazing in the Empire Theatre, thanks to all those who gave us the heads up.
Sitting fourth row was unbelievably close to the boys - it felt like they were in a rather large living room...or better yet, a movie theatre like Borgs said. The crowd was hard to peg down and we had a discussion after the show as to what we thought the ratio of "fan club members" to "other" patrons was. It looked like it might have been 30/70, something like that. Lots of the "younger generation" around which is always nice to see. Most were very respective of where their assigned seats were which seemed to make security's job that much easier. Of course, as luck would have it, Chris Chris and I had the pleasure of having some drunk guy sneak up behind us during the encore and start blatently yelling at us that he "needed" our memory cards and video tapes "when we were done with them." Whatever punk!
I don't think anyone has mentioned the closing song yet...Long Time Running. Gord sat down on one of the monitors at the edge of the stage, crossed his legs and let the crowd belt out some of the course. Unfortunately, it sounded like not many people knew them :?

cratch: ?? But as he was saying thanks at the end of the set, he said: "thanks guys, that was nice. I will remember that one for a while." It was very nice to hear.
We were allowed to bring our gear in to the show last night so there are multiple recordings and video out there. But to respect MAv's (and of course the band's) wishes, these will stay off the tracker and on the shelf until the album is released. I imagine October is going to be a flurry of awesome shows being released all at once. Not to mention a new album of course.
So thanks to all the Basers I met last night and a special thanks to thehip11, SirMatticus, Dreyfuss, BigA, Beanmedic, Chancellor and Emperor for making it an extra sweet night. I will always remember the photoshoot in the parking lot after the show...and that means you Chris Chris! Can't wait to party with you all again this weekend.
Gotta go download some pics!
Cheers!